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Updated: May 8, 2025
The text of the Atharvanikas exhibits at the beginning of their Upanishad some mantras, 'Pierce the sukra, pierce the heart. The followers of the Sama-veda read at the beginning of their rahasya- brahmana 'O God Savitri, promote the sacrifice. The Kathakas and the Taittiriyakas have 'May Mitra be propitious to us, may Varuna be propitious. The Satyayanins have 'Thou art a white horse, a tawny and a black one! The Kaushitakins have a Brahmana referring to the Mahavrata- ceremony, 'Indra having slain Vritra became great. The Kaushitakins also have a Mahavrata-brahmana.
The Atharvanikas read in their text, 'The higher knowledge is that by which that Indestructible is apprehended. Up. The doubt here arises whether the Indestructible, possessing the qualities of imperceptibility, &c., and that which is higher than the Indestructible, should be taken to denote the Pradhana and the soul of the Sankhyas, or whether both denote the highest Self.
The Atharvanikas have 'He who knows, shaking off good and evil, free from passion, reaches the highest oneness. The Satyayanins have 'His sons obtain his inheritance, his friends the good, his enemies the evil he has done. The Kaushitakins 'He shakes off his good and his evil deeds.
To the latter class belong such texts as 'Thou art that' and 'this Self is Brahman. Some persons even record that Brahman is of the nature of slaves, fishermen, and so on. The Atharvanikas, that is to say, have the following text, Brahman are the slaves.
The restriction refers only to a peculiarity of the study of the Veda on the part of the Atharvanikas, being meant to establish that they should possess that special qualification which the rite produces; but it does not affect the vidya itself.
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